Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood

Wordsworth, William

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“…At the ex pense of what or whom is infancy idealized? One possibility, given the pronounced indi vidualism of modern psychology, is that 'the social world' as a whole is located in psycho logical accounts of infancy as 'bad', blame worthy, the 'prison-house' that darkens the otherwise gleaming world of the blissful babe [Bradley, 1988: Wordsworth. 1807], Another possibility is that mothers are covertly posi tioned as 'bad' objects in child psychology [Bradley, forthcoming b].…”

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Infancy as Paradise

Bradley¹

1991

Human Development

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This essay explores procedural and discursive ways in which psychological research idealizes infancy. These include the neglect of infant negativity, the overestimation of the infant’s understanding of others, the failure to explore the prevalence of conflict and ambivalence in mothers and the abstraction of mother and baby from their social context. It is argued that these features of research force a reconsideration of child psychology as a domain governed by the values of truth and falsehood. The idealization of infancy suggests that research in this area should rather be read as having an allegorical significance.

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Infancy as Paradise

Bradley¹

1991

Human Development

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“…(Wordsworth, 1843) Given the philosophical emphasis of this journal it is hardly surprising that the articles in this issue represent a departure from dominant narratives of early childhood education and further develop an understanding of the importance of philosophy of education and the young child. These align and greatly expand on philosophical shifts in approaches to teaching and learning--heralded in previous EPAT articles that locate pedagogy across private and public space (Lewis, 2012); in and outside of traditional forms of constructivism (Peterson, 2012); beyond instrumental imperatives (Taatila & Raij, 2012) and beyond dominant paradigms (Moss, 2007).…”

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Philosophy and Pedagogy of Early Childhood

Farquhar

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2013

Educational Philosophy and Theory

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“…A good deal may depend upon bow far William Wordswortb, tbe Englisb poet, was rigbt wben he wrote that the child was father of the man [sic] "trailing clouds of glory... from God who is our home." (Wordsworth [1807(Wordsworth [ ] 1978 On present scientific evidence, the African continent is the cradle of human kind. It is the soil where the human species began.^ Nineteenth century Europe saw Africa as being botb "cbild" and "close to nature".…”

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Cultural Amnesia, Cultural Nostalgia and False Memory: Africa’s Identity Crisis Revisited

Mazrui

2013

Afr Asian Stud

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The point of departure of this article is Ernest Renan's observation that the secret of nationbuilding is to get one's history wrong. We critically analyze -in the broader and historical context of the encounters between Africans and Europeans -the role of collective memory in its four functions of preservation, selection, elimination and invention. We focus on the first function to examine in depth how positive preservation of memory can become a form of nostalgia and how negative selection by memory can lead to elimination and amnesia. We argue that both nostalgia and amnesia can be forms of "getting one's history wrong" in order to get one's national identity right. We also attempt to show how historical invention can be consolidated into a false memory -placing something in the past which was never there before.Ernest Renan, the French philosopher and historian, once observed that the secret of nation-building was to get one's history wrong. He conceded that it was ofthe essence of a nation that all individuals should have much in common, but it was also imperative that "they should all have forgotten much". Renan declared: "To forget and -I will venture to say -to get one's history wrong are essential factors in the making of a nation." (Renan 1939,190-191)

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Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood

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Infancy as Paradise

Infancy as Paradise

Philosophy and Pedagogy of Early Childhood

Cultural Amnesia, Cultural Nostalgia and False Memory: Africa’s Identity Crisis Revisited

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